Thousands of people protested Saturday against wars in the Middle East and judicial reforms proposed by Italy's conservative government - linking international tensions with a growing domestic political battle before a national referendum.

The U.S. flag was raised Saturday over its embassy in Venezuela for the first time since 2019, a move that highlighted the recent shift in relations between the two countries since former President Nicolas Maduro was captured by American troops in January.

Trinidad and Tobago's government has received House of Representatives approval to extend a state of emergency for three months, as the twin-island Caribbean nation struggles with a high level of crime.

Pope Leo XIV moved into the newly renovated papal apartment in the Apostolic Palace on Saturday, taking up residence in the flat that was famously eschewed by Pope Francis.

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro 's kidney function worsened at the intensive care unit to which he was transferred hours earlier, a hospital in the capital, Brasilia, said Saturday. The 70-year-old leader also has pneumonia and doctors say his medical situation is serious, but stable.

The United States military struck Kharg Island, Iran's most critical oil export hub, Friday in a large-scale precision operation that destroyed more than 90 military targets while deliberately sparing the island's oil infrastructure, officials said Saturday.

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President Trump declared Iran "totally defeated" just two weeks into the war with the Islamic republic.

North Korea test-fired 10 short-range ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan Saturday, five days after South Korea and its U.S. allies kicked off their annual spring war games.

After bombs exploded near her home in the eastern Iranian city of Golestan, hairdresser Merve Pourkaz decided to leave.

Prominent Belarus opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova on Saturday picked up a prize for contributions to European unity that she was unable to collect while in prison in her homeland four years ago.

A missile struck a helipad inside the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad and debris from an intercepted Iranian drone hit an oil facility in the United Arab Emirates as the U.S.-Israel war with Iran entered its third week Saturday.

A combined missile and drone attack on the Kyiv region killed at least four people and wounded at least 15 overnight into Saturday, according to the head of the regional administration for the Ukrainian capital.

Pakistan's president on Saturday warned neighboring Afghanistan's Taliban government that it had " crossed a red line " by launching drone attacks on civilian areas in Pakistan and said the administration in Kabul has brought "grave consequences upon itself."

North Korea on Saturday fired about 10 ballistic missiles toward the eastern sea, South Korea's military said, staging its own show of force as the rival South conducts a joint military exercise with the United States.

The American military has ordered 2,500 Marines and an amphibious assault ship to the Middle East, a U.S. official said Friday, in a major addition of forces in the region after nearly two weeks of war with Iran.

Honda said it is halting plans for three models of electric vehicles that would have been sold in North America, blaming tariffs, eased gasoline regulations and rolled-back incentives.

A Miami man pleaded guilty this week to coordinating with a Chinese distributor to import illegal "bath salts" into the U.S. for sale in the Miami area from 2022 to 2025.

Mexican authorities announced Thursday a recent lab bust that turned up 595 pounds of fentanyl, which is the equivalent of 14 million doses of the drug.

Ethiopia on Tuesday declared three days of mourning as the death toll from this week's landslides in the country's south climbed to 80.